Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
BETTER?
SUBJECTS
USE NOMINALIZATIONS
CAREFULLY
Verb
Nominalization
Adjective
Nominalization
Decide
Decision
Precise
Precision
Fail
Failure
Frequent
Frequency
Resist
Resistance
Intelligent
Intelligence
CHARACTERS
The clearest characters are flesh-and-blood
people
Yet your writing may deal with abstract
characters: thought disorders, demographic
changes, social mobility, isotherms, gene pools
Choose the characters that are important to your
paper, even if they are abstract nominalizations.
Examples:
The
MAIN CHARACTERS
Decide who or what is the main character of each
sentence or of your paper as a whole:
Examples:
If
If
If
If
If
B.
Identify
Revise:
Put
The
Use
COMPLEXITY LAST
Begin sentences with familiar information
End sentences with complex, new information.
When:
When
OTHER REVIEW
length
Grammatical correctness
Remove unnecessary words; simplify and clarify
Coherence of paragraphs
Spelling
Punctuation
Proper capitalization, citation, quotes, spelling
numbers, formatting foreign words.
See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ for more
formatting information.
REVIEW
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